SUAREZ CORPORATION INDUSTRIES v. WRECKED AND ABANDONED VESSEL R.M.S. TITANIC

No. 99 Civ. 12433(JSR).

130 F.Supp.2d 558 (2001)

SUAREZ CORPORATION INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff, v. The WRECKED AND ABANDONED VESSEL R.M.S. TITANIC, HER ENGINES, TACKLE, EQUIPMENT, FURNISHINGS, Located Within One Nautical of a Point Located at 41-43'32" North Latitude and 49 56'49" West, and Artifacts, and Video located at 17 Battery Place, New York, NY, in rem, and R.M.S. Titanic, Inc., George Tulloch, Allan Carlin, Titanic Ventures Limited Partnership, and Oceanic Research and Exploration Limited, in personam, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

February 8, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Carpentieri, New York City, for plaintiff.

Carl Kaminsky, New york City, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM ORDER

RAKOFF, District Judge.

As everyone knows by now, the R.M.S. Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Sea on April 15, 1912, taking the lives of approximately 1500 people but providing endless future employment for writers, actors, salvagers, and, most recently, lawyers.1 The instant case involves a salvage expedition launched in the summer of 1996...

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